European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Yes, there were many ways of organizing this.
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But nobody was doing that for free. We have to say that.
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Little kids.
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With girls there was no problem, but with boys, if he was circumcised, then it was a serious problem.
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First of all we had to go somewhere to some village,
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to get a birth certificate from a priest.
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We went there with the priest, to the province around Warsaw areas, somewhere from Góra Kalwaria or Grójec.
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There the birth certificates were given.
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Documents were made and then without any problem you could go out with a boy or...
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A lot of children taken out from the ghetto went to the monastery.
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Monasteries were very helpful.
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All monasteries in the Warsaw areas, I know about ten or fifteen cases, as me myself took part in it.
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I was settling documents, or delivering the birth certificate or taking one to the monastery.
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Because it was not that that I was taking a kid directly to a monastery, no.
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I was taking it to, let us say, to Karczew and there,
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in Karczew I was passing this kid to somebody else and the next person took it to the monastery.
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That is why we have so many priests…
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When you look at them, you can see they are Jews.
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It cost a lot.
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If you went to a priest, you had to put money on the tray so that he could give you a birth certificate.
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